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  Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 11, 2018 The Soyuz-2.1A rocket with Progress MS-08 cargo spacecraft has failed to blast off from Baikonur at appointed time, the Sputnik correspondent reported from the Cosmodrome. A source told Sputnik that the spacecraft launch was postponed to the reserve date, February 13. The Progress MS-08 freighter was set for the launch atop the Soyuz-2.1a rocket to reach the International Space Station (ISS) under a new scheme in around three hours after circling the Earth only twice. For decades, spaceships with crew and cargo typically flew for about 50 hours before reaching the ISS. In 2013, Russia introduced a six-hour route to the ISS, involving four orbits. ... read more |
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All-in-one service for the Space StationParis (ESA) Feb 12, 2018 Quick access to space, high-speed data feed and a unique vantage point are the selling points of a new commercial venture on the International Space Station. Its name is Bartolomeo, and its versatil ... more 
Marshall tech cleans your air, keeps your beer cold and helps with mathHuntsville AL (SPX) Feb 12, 2018 As rockets roar off of launch pads and spacecraft beam data back from distant planets, the technologies that enable those mighty feats are being put in your hands every day as products and technolog ... more  
Seafloor data point to global volcanism after Chicxulub meteor strikeEugene OR (SPX) Feb 12, 2018 A record of volcanism preserved along ancient mid-ocean ridges provides evidence for heightened worldwide magmatic activity 66 million years ago just after the Chicxulub meteor struck Earth, accordi ... more  
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter preparing for years aheadPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 12, 2018 NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has begun extra stargazing to help the space agency accomplish advances in Mars exploration over the next decade. The spacecraft already has worked mor ... more |
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Cosmic x-rays may provide clues to the nature of dark matterMainz, Germany (SPX) Feb 12, 2018 Dark matter is increasingly puzzling. Around the world, physicists have been trying for decades to determine the nature of these matter particles, which do not emit light and are therefore invisible ... more 
Microlensing unveils extragalactic planetsNorman OK (SPX) Feb 12, 2018 A University of Oklahoma astrophysics team has discovered for the first time a population of planets beyond the Milky Way galaxy. Using microlensing - an astronomical phenomenon and the only known m ... more  
France to spend 37 bn euros on upgrading nuclear arsenalParis (AFP) Feb 8, 2018 France is planning a 37-billion-euro revamp of its nuclear arsenal over the next seven years, part of a sharp increase in defence spending aimed at allowing France to "hold its own" as a key power in Europe, the country's defence chief said Thursday. ... more  
China to Develop Sea-Based Missile InterceptorsBeijing (XNA) Feb 09, 2018 China is planning to develop a sea-based missile defense launcher after completing a successful intercept of a ballistic missile in space from a ground-based system earlier this week, according to t ... more  
Helping authorities respond more quickly to airborne radiological threatsRaleigh NC (SPX) Feb 12, 2018 Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique that uses existing technologies to detect potential airborne radiological materials in hours instead of days. "W ... more |
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 New technique can capture images of ultrafast energy-time entangled photon pairs  
Quantum algorithm could help AI think fasterSingapore (SPX) Feb 08, 2018 One of the ways that computers 'think' is by analysing relationships within large sets of data. An international team has shown that quantum computers can do one such analysis faster than classical ... more  |
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3-D Printable Tools May Help Study Astronaut HealthHouston TX (SPX) Feb 12, 2018 If humans are destined for deep space, they need to understand the space environment changes health, including aging and antibiotic resistance. A new NASA project could help. It aims to develo ... more  
The evolution of walking may have happened earlier than thought -- and underwaterWashington (UPI) Feb 8, 2018 The first animals to walk may have evolved locomotion underwater. ... more  
Clemson researchers blaze new ground in wireless energy generationClemson SC (SPX) Feb 12, 2018 Researchers from Clemson's Nanomaterials Institute (CNI) are one step closer to wirelessly powering the world using triboelectricity - a green energy source. In March 2017, a group of physicis ... more  
New Horizons captures record-breaking images in the Kuiper BeltWashington DC (SPX) Feb 09, 2018 NASA's New Horizons spacecraft recently turned its telescopic camera toward a field of stars, snapped an image - and made history. The routine calibration frame of the "Wishing Well" galactic ... more 
NASA leverages proven technologies to build agency's first planetary wind lidarGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 09, 2018 NASA scientists have found a way to adapt a handful of recently developed technologies to build a new instrument that could give them what they have yet to obtain: never-before-revealed details abou ... more |
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 Turin, Italy (SPX) Feb 07, 2018 
NanoRacks reports that Thales Alenia Space has been chosen as the latest partner in its commercial airlock program.
Thales Alenia Space will produce and test the critical pressure shell for NanoRacks' Airlock Module, which is targeting to be launched to the International Space Station late 2019, and will be used to deploy commercial and government payloads. Thales Alenia Space will also ma ... more |
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 San Francisco (AFP) Feb 6, 2018 
From cars to rockets, Elon Musk dreams big.
On Tuesday, the South African-born entrepreneur combined both of those passions, blasting one of his Tesla electric cars into space aboard his own rocket.
It was the latest feat for the 46-year-old Silicon Valley billionaire who has been hailed as a leading innovator and visionary.
Born in Pretoria, on June 28, 1971, the son of an engineer ... more |
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 Hong Kong (SPX) Feb 08, 2018 
The planet Mars has long drawn interest from scientists and non-scientists as a possible place to search for evidence of life beyond Earth because the surface contains numerous familiar features such as dried river channels and dried lake beds that hint at a warmer, wetter, more earthlike climate in the past.
However, Dr Joseph Michalski of the Department of Earth Sciences and Laboratory f ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 09, 2018 
Chinese taikonauts have "maintained an indomitable spirit while carrying out space exploration," said Zhang Youxia, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, Wednesday.
Zhang made the remarks at a seminar while listening to reports delivered by Chinese taikonauts Jing Haipeng, Liu Yang and Deng Qingming about their work over the years.
The Taikonaut Corps of the People's Libe ... more |
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 London (Sputnik) Feb 07, 2018 
Daniel Kawczynski, UK Conservative lawmaker, told Sputnik on Wednesday that he intended to inform the country's Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson about the interest of UK companies in enhancing cooperation with Russia in the space domain.
"The Russian officials at the embassy said that they are keen, the British side is keen to explore opportunities for more cooperation in space and that's a ... more |
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 Raleigh NC (SPX) Feb 12, 2018 
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique that uses existing technologies to detect potential airborne radiological materials in hours instead of days.
"We wanted a rapid way of detecting radiological aerosols that are usually associated with the production of dirty bombs or other radiological weapons," says Joseph Cope, a Ph.D. student and fellow with ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 09, 2018 
A star about 100 light years away in the Pisces constellation, GJ 9827, hosts what may be one of the most massive and dense super-Earth planets detected to date according to new research led by Carnegie's Johanna Teske. This new information provides evidence to help astronomers better understand the process by which such planets form.
The GJ 9827 star actually hosts a trio of planets, disc ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 09, 2018 
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft recently turned its telescopic camera toward a field of stars, snapped an image - and made history.
The routine calibration frame of the "Wishing Well" galactic open star cluster, made by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on Dec. 5, was taken when New Horizons was 3.79 billion miles (6.12 billion kilometers, or 40.9 astronomical units) from Earth - ... more |
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 Pullman WA (SPX) Feb 08, 2018 
Building a submarine gets tricky when the temperature drops to -300 Fahrenheit and the ocean is made of methane and ethane.
Washington State University researchers are working with NASA to determine how a submarine might work on Titan, the largest of Saturn's many moons and the second largest in the solar system. The space agency plans to launch a real submarine into Titan seas in the next ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Feb 06, 2018 
The Galileo satellite navigation system, Europe's rival to the United States' GPS, has nearly 100 million users after its first year of operation, the French space agency CNES said Thursday.
The system, seen as strategically important to Europe, went live in December 2016, having taken 17 years at more than triple the original budget to get there.
Initial services offered only a weak sig ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Feb 09, 2018 
A study led by University of Colorado Boulder researchers provides new insight into the Moon's excessive equatorial bulge, a feature that solidified in place over four billion years ago as the Moon gradually distanced itself from the Earth.
The research sets parameters on how quickly the Moon could have receded from the Earth and suggests that the nascent planet's hydrosphere was either no ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 08, 2018 
Two small asteroids recently discovered by astronomers at the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) near Tucson, Arizona, are safely passing by Earth within one lunar distance this week.
The first of this week's close-approaching asteroids - discovered by CSS on Feb. 4 - is designated asteroid 2018 CC. Its close approach to Earth came Tuesday (Feb. 6) at 12:10 p.m. PST (3:10 p.m. EST) at a ... more |
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 Guildford UK (SPX) Feb 07, 2018 
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) signed a 25M pounds contract in Beijing yesterday with Twenty First Century Aerospace Technology Co., Ltd (21AT) to provide data from a new Earth Observation satellite (SSTL-S1) due for launch on PSLV in the middle of this year.
The contract was signed by Sir Martin Sweeting, Executive Chairman of SSTL, and Mme Wu Shuang, President and Chairman of 21A ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 12, 2018 
Magnetism plays a critical role in various solar phenomena such as flares, mass ejections, flux ropes, and coronal heating. Sunspots are areas of concentrated magnetic fields. A sunspot usually consists of a circular dark core (the umbra) with a vertical magnetic field and radially-elongated fine threads (the penumbra) with a horizontal field.
The penumbra harbors an outward flow of gas al ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 07, 2018 
For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that a stable frequency reference can be reliably transmitted more than 300 kilometers over a standard fiber optic telecommunications network and used to synchronize two radio telescopes. Stable frequency references, which are used to calibrate clocks and instruments that make ultraprecise measurements, are usually only accessible at facilities t ... more |
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 Lawrence KS (SPX) Feb 09, 2018  In a 17-mile circular tunnel underneath the border between France and Switzerland, an international collaboration of scientists runs experiments using the world's most advanced scientific instrument, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). By smashing together protons that travel close to light speed, particle physicists analyze these collisions and learn more about the fundamental makeup of all matter ... more |
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